"MONUMENTA tangencia ecclesiam de Ravenyngham," being a chartulary of the College of Raveningham, co. Norfolk, founded in 1343 by John de Norwico, removed to Norton Subcourse in 1371, and finally transferred to Mettingham, co. Suffolk, in 1382. Some of the earlier charters of the volume relate t...
EXTRACTS from the Textus Roffensis, containing many articles Dot printed in Hearne's edition; copied in imitation of the ancient writing by James Smith (described at f. 21 as " puer decennis "), and collated with the original by William and Elizabeth Elstob in 1712. At f. 2 is a list by Dr. Samu...
"REGISTRUM cartarum Sacristarie sancti Neoti factum ad festum Annunciacionis Sancte Marie Anno incarnacionis domini mo co octogesimo sexto, tempore fratris Willelmi le Caron de Becco tunc Sacriste." The charters are ninety-nine in number, and refer exclusively to the Sacristary of the Priory of ...
CHARTULARY of the Hospital of St. Thomas the Martyr in Southwark. Latin and English. The deeds are entered, not chronologically, but according to the parishes in which the lands concerned are situated, and include conveyances of the several estates between private persons, before they came into ...
"REGISTRUM cartarum Prioratus de Stone in comitatu Staffordiæ": a transcript, made in 1734 by David Casley, librarian of the Cotton Library, from Cotton MS. Vespasian E. xxiv., formerly belonging to Christopher, Lord Hatton (see Dugdale, Monasticon, vi. 1830, p. 226). Cotton Ch. xiii. 6 contains...
WILL of Alfred the Great, in Anglo-Saxon, copied from No. 944 above (f. 29 b), when in T. Astle's possession; with introduction and notes, and translations into English and Latin, by O[wen] M[anning],1776 (see f.18). Published at Oxford,1788. Followed (f. 19) by the will of Alfred the Alderman (...
REGULA Canonicorum S. Chrodegangi Metensis Episcopi, in Latin and Anglo-Saxon. Transcript of a MS. of the xith century at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (S. 12 in Wanley's catalogue of Anglo-Saxon MSS. at C. C. C., p. 130, contained in Hickes's Thesaurus, vol. ii.; and no. cxci. in Nasmith's ...
HYMN to the Virgin, in French, preceded by a calendar in a different hand. Imperfect at the beginning, the first line being, "Durement fu trauaile" (f. 8 b), and wanting leaves after ff. 9, 10. The several divisions remaining begin, "Deu te salt uirgine honore" (f. 9 b), "Virge mere preciouse" (...
LIVES OF SAINTS, in English verse. This MS. belongs to the group of which Harley MS. 2277 and Egerton MS. 1993 are representatives, described at length in C. Horstmann's Altenglische Legenden, Paderborn, 1875, pp. iii.-xxxviii., and in his introduction to The Early South-English Legendary or Liv...